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Your "algae" looks like it could be hydra which is an animal.

You need to keep the laying media moist or the eggs don't hatch well.

They would waste a lot of water used on a pond. They use water from the tap with a venturi. I bought a cheapo second hand food grade magnetic drive pump when I had an inground pond. Worked a treat and still does 25 years later so is used on my tank sitting on the floor.

Hope you enjoy your time here.

Hope you enjoy your time here.

Rainbow skinks cannot be kept,bred, sold or advertised nationwide, Water dragons, beardies etc have to be kept in secure confinement. Blue tounges are the same as rainbow skinks in the ARC area.

As you rightly say, it is an unspoken rule so do whatever ensures that you have another good day (hopefully someone else as well).

You will find that some of your Echinodorus sp. will grow rank as they get bigger and you may only see the stalks in the tank (marble queen is a varigated cordifolius and argentiniensus will get pretty big as well). To get the effect of straight Val see if you can get hold of an Echinodorus uraguyensis as it looks a lot like Val and will not go into an emersed form (legal as well).

Grindals would be OK as a transition for teenagers to full sized worms.

It will only go into solution in acid water.

Copper is a very effective treatment for some diseases (particularly velvet). The disadvantage is that some fish find copper very toxic (Nothobranchius sp. for instance). It is used by some breeders to control velvet but today is usually used in the chelated form where citric acid is added to a copper sulphate solution to make it less toxic. It also makes it less effective but them's the breaks.

That used to be the way to control whitespot and velvet that grandad used. The snails leave the water when the copper gets to the right strength. A bit like grandad's butcher that used to watch a spud float when determining if the brine was the right strength for the bacon.

There isn't any. It is a joint that fits into the pipe and is kept in place by a clamped metal ring. The solvent used on PVC pipes is MEK (methyl-ethyl-ketone). It is a lot easier to use a flexible pipe with clamped joints when doing alterations in an existing building than to sil-flos copper pipes, and a lot cheaper.

Copper pipe is pretty expensive and most pipework (particularly alterations) would be done in plastic.

Negotiation is to try and achieve a win/win situation where each party doesn't get all they want but is prepared to walk away reasonably satisfied. If you always hammer your boss or your employees it will end up being a temporary arrangement where nobody realy wins. Negotiation is an art form and is best carried out by skilled people (including the boss---which is not always the case). You will find that most land agents will employ someone else to sell their own house rather than do it themselves. A very good employee is just that and not a good negotiator and a good boss is usually just that. The specialised negotiators are usually employed by the unions or large firms that can afford to employ "human resource managers" but come negotiation time they will front up with a skilled negotiator from the union for bosses---which they lovingly like to call the employers federation.

A debt collector would be about as useful as a ballerina I would think. A strong brain would be more use than a strong arm.

It is highly unlikely that you would get toxic levals of copper from your taps. Our house has the original hot water cylinder from when the house was built in 1945. Copper is very toxic to humans and snails would crawl out of the tank before the fish died. All the taps would leak if there was a problem as the first sign is dezincafication of the brass taps where the zinc is corroded and leaves a honeycomb of copper because zinc is more reactive than copper.

In the first few weeks of use of copper in a plumbing system the copper forms an amalgum with iron and becomes a lot more resistant to corrosion. Corrosion is a problem in acid water supplies and that is why the water supply authorities go to a lot of trouble to keep the water slightly alkaline.

Great read as usual.

You will need a lawyer with that experience and there are a few who think they know and even fewer that actually know. The other alternative is to pay a union negotiator to do it on an hourly rate through the union. Cheaper and better to join the union--they are not actually heathens and communists like some believe. Just pick a union with some nouse.

Hang in there. It does sound like it can only get better.

When you replant Echinodrus sp. The roots die off and they grow new roots so trimming them is a good idea. Anubias "roots" are only an anchoring mechanism.

Raising fish with that sort of agro would be the problem in numbers I think. Fighters will handle a small jar but not them I suspect.

Thanks for the info. Even normals are a bit much for me. The fish would probably be the cheapest part.

Chances are that after a few generations they will be a similar cost to any other. Look at all the albinos and leucistics already around in other species. Just hope it happens before they put you in a box.